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    The Moral Leader: Challenges, Insights and Tools

    Successful leaders – at any level and in any arena – are inevitably presented with moral and ethical choices. This unique and innovative textbook is designed to encourage students and managers to confront those fundamental moral challenges, to develop skills in... View Details

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    Team - Case Method Project

    in Business History. At Harvard Business School, Walter is co-editor of Business History Review and directs the school's Business History Initiative. He is a past president of the Business History Conference. Dean Grodzins Dean Grodzins... View Details
    • February 2019 (Revised September 2019)
    • Case

    Amazon in Fashion

    By: John R. Wells, Benjamin Weinstock and Gabriel Ellsworth
    According to many analysts and industry observers, in 2018 Amazon became the largest retailer of apparel in the United States and the second largest in the world, behind Alibaba. Much of Amazon’s apparel was made by third-party retailers on its platform, but Amazon had... View Details
    Keywords: Amazon; Amazon.com; Fashion; Fashion Accessories; Retail; Retailing Industry; Retailing; ASOS; Inditex; Multi-channel Retailers; Online Retail; Online Retailing; Positioning; Private Label; Delivery; Spending; Internet and the Web; Competitive Strategy; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • April 2018
    • Case

    Happy UAE

    By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Brian J. Hall, Tiffany Y. Chang, Karim Sameh and Alpana Thapar
    This case centers on the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) national goal of raising the happiness of its residents and visitors through ambitious government initiatives. They combined this bold national goal with an accountability structure (incentive plan) built on Key... View Details
    Keywords: Happiness; Welfare; Governance; Motivation and Incentives; United Arab Emirates
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    Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, called a meeting of the leading investment banks, which were facing solvency issues of their own, to consider a private-sector rescue plan for Lehman Brothers. That... View Details
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    Globalization - Faculty & Research

    Guitars employees. The co-founders felt an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) would best preserve the company’s values and distinct culture. In 2024, the co-founders, Powers (now president and CEO), CFO Barbara Wight, and Vice View Details
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    Tata Hall | About

    1975), Dean Nitin Nohria & Harvard University President Drew Faust Tata Hall is named in honor of Ratan N. Tata (AMP 71, 1975), who served as chairman of the Tata Sons Ltd., one of India’s largest business conglomerates, from 1991 until... View Details
    • 05 Jul 2023
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    GCC Alumni Celebrate Grand Opening of New Club Center

    Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council recently marked the grand opening of "The House"—a new permanent club headquarters and collaborative space located in Dubai and open to all HBS alumni living in or visiting the Gulf region. According to... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
    • 24 Feb 2021
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

    & Peace” course stands out as a favorite. It even inspired him to write his fourth book and his first novel, The Peacemaker’s Code, released this month. The book is a science fiction thriller in which a young Cambridge historian is called to Washington to advise... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • 01 Feb 2022
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    Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

    president for research when she launched what proved to be the company's most successful "emerging business opportunity," the Life Sciences venture. She disrupted IBM's staid model by hiring genetic scientists and other specialists, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • May 2024 (Revised February 2025)
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    Choosing the Course of Passion: Brooke Boyarsky Pratt at knownwell

    By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Alexis Lefort
    Brooke Boyarsky Pratt (HBS ’13) enjoyed considerable success in her early career, quickly climbing the ranks to associate partner at McKinsey, and later becoming an executive vice president at Berkadia, a Berkshire Hathaway portfolio company. Throughout these years,... View Details
    Keywords: Passion; Career; Career Planning; Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Mission and Purpose; Identity; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Health Industry; United States
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    • 21 Aug 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

    After successful stints at Target (vice president of merchandising) and Apple (senior vice president of retail operations), it seemed Ron Johnson could do no wrong. But the winning streak came to a... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
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    Greenhill House | About

    (1890-1970), US treasury secretary under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1957. An attorney from Michigan, Humphrey became a leader in the American steel industry as the president of the M.A.... View Details
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    The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

    In 1883 railroad executives met to establish a system of Standard Time in four time zones in the United States. Charles Perrow, Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, p. 215. Copyright ©... View Details
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    Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

    become a life sciences cluster and their understanding of the need for lab space to support Boston as a hub for biotechnology ventures,” said Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Harvard President Drew Faust added, “The Life Lab is... View Details
    • 04 Jan 2024
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    Great Heights

    In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest... View Details
    Keywords: Amy Crawford
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    Regional Winners - Alumni

    Kathryn Webster, MBA 2023, Co-founder & President Region: Northeastern U.S./New York 2024 Alumni Regional Winners International Track: Regional Winner: Rosalino Molina– Elisa (Global Winner) Asia Pacific Region: Regional Winner: Yichen... View Details
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    Aldrich Hall | About

    Jr. was a noted philanthropist who believed that wealth should be “an instrumentality of constructive social living.” In that spirit, he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation, funded the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg,... View Details
    • 04 Jun 2020
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    It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

    for teams to thrive, even in the leader’s absence. Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School, served as senior vice president for leadership and strategy at Uber and has consulted with WeWork and... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 08 May 2024
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    Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Awarded Medal of Freedom

    Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) was one of 19 people awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on May 2. “From finance to media to philanthropy, Michael Bloomberg has revolutionized our economy,” President Biden said as he conferred the Nation’s highest... View Details